Factual error: After the intruders flood the panic room with propane, Jody Foster's character gets a lighter and ignites the propane causing it to burn along the ceiling. This would be impossible as propane is heavier than air and would sink to the floor rather than rise up to the ceiling. Lighting a flame in that room should have caused anyone in the room and on the floor to be engulfed in flames almost instantly.
Panic Room (2002)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: David Fincher
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Jared Leto, Dwight Yoakam
Nearly $20 million dollars in bearer bonds belonging to Junior’s recently deceased grandfather is hidden inside a safe in the panic room. Unable to get the women out, frustrated Junior, the 'brains' of the group, decides to give up and leave. He’s shot and killed by the barely sane Raoul. Burnum also tries to leave but is forced at gunpoint by Raoul to stay and crack open the safe. Involved only because he needs money for a child custody fight, Burnum reluctantly agrees but refuses to hurt anyone.Meg and Sarah are eventually flushed out of the panic room. Burnum opens the safe, and with his share of the money, takes off. Hearing screams, he rushes back. After a struggle, Raoul is about to bludgeon Meg with a sledgehammer. Burnum picks up Raoul’s gun and shoots him. He makes for an escape, but is captured by arriving police. Meg and Sarah move out of the house.
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Meg: If we stay calm everything will be fine, okay? Just stay calm.
Sarah: You're making me nervous.
Meg: I'm sorry.
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Question: I don't really understand why Jodie Foster's character didn't tell the police something was wrong when they came to the door. I know she was worried for her daughter but the robbers couldn't overhear and she could have asked the police to come back later, giving her a chance to smash the cameras. Also, considering that she emphatically denied there was anything wrong, why did the police return later with all the guns etc?
Answer: The cop told Jodie "if you can give me some kind of signal." Jodie runs her fingers through her hair, that's the signal.
Answer: One doesn't ask the cops to come back later, especially when one's daughter's life is a stake. Also, the cops came back because they just didn't believe her and felt that something was up (call it intuition).
Not only that, Jodie Foster said that "they were good", why would she say that they are good if not that they were right?
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Answer: But if Jodie Foster was so keen to placate the burglars and protect her daughter's life then why did she smash the cameras after the police left? It doesn't make sense.
She smashed the cameras, so the thieves in the Panic Room couldn't see what she was doing. That's why the thieves had said, "Why didn't we do that?"